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RAMM Creative Programme 2012-16 Collaborating with contemporary artists Below: The courtyard at RAMM “ Creative practice and cultural heritage come together in Exeter’s RAMM. Over the years the museum has worked with many artists, but recent support from partners, including Arts Council England, has enabled RAMM to collaborate with some of the country’s leading creative ﬁgures. Artists have animated the museum’s amazing collections, provided new ways of looking at our heritage, and they have encouraged dialogue and learning in the city’s Home to a Million Thoughts.”

Councillor Rosie Denham Lead for Economy & Culture, Exeter City Council

Councillor Rosie Denham Below: Bottom: RAMM’s Queen Street entrance Maria Lalic, Lead and Ten Colours, 2010 to 2011, consists of lead and the ten artists’ colours derived from its compounds Introduction

RAMM has been at the heart of Exeter’s cultural life since 1868. For many years the museum has organised exhibitions of contemporary art and worked with artists. Over recent years RAMM has developed its creative and contemporary programme as part of its overall vision as ‘Home to a Million Thoughts’.

The development project (2007-11) gave RAMM the opportunity to design artwork into the fabric of the building – a new venture for us. The success of these commissions – ﬁve pieces of art by three artists Maria Lalic, Michelle McKinney and Nicky Hirst; and the digital piece Ghostwriter by Blast Theory, which ran throughout 2012 – foreshadowed the current contemporary art programme. With Arts Council England’s Major Partner Museum funding, RAMM has strengthened its programme and introduced a more innovative approach: A combination of originated content and toured-in exhibitions, new collaborations with artists working on a variety of scalable projects, and additional expertise and advice from creative partners.

The strength of RAMM lies in its stories, the collections, people, places and events that are recorded in the museum. Rather than duplicate what other contemporary art spaces do, RAMM endeavours to provide a distinctive offer, encouraging artists and partners to use the vision of ‘Home to a Million Thoughts’ as their springboard for creativity. RAMM’s ambition has been sustained and progressed. Our vision is articulated by the contemporary artists who are part of the museum’s culture.

This is a review of the main strands of activity, with an emphasis on recent developments. Additional information can be found in the links at the end of this document.

Ghostwriter, Blast Theory 1 Artists responding to the collections

Leading contemporary artists have been invited to create responses to RAMM’s encyclopedic collections in a programme called Artist Reflections. Below: Bottom: Mark Anstee working on Polly Morgan talking at the his RAMMyriorama Arts Council Curators Day Artist Reﬂections

RAMM’s vision is Home to a Million Thoughts. As part of the contemporary arts programme, the museum invited artists to reﬂect and respond to the collections with their own thoughts. The Artist Reﬂections are intended to stand alone as creative interventions, whilst acting as a research and development process informing RAMM’s longer-term ambitions for commissioning artwork and collaborating with artists.

The artists developed responses or interventions – the reﬂections – inspired by the RAMM collections of one million objects. Initial suggestions arose from discussions between colleagues at Arts Council Collection at Southbank Centre and RAMM as part of a series of activities explored in collaboration with partners. A long-list of names was drawn up in discussion with RAMM’s Contemporary Arts Panel during 2013, in consultation with Arts Council England and the Arts Council Collection. The ﬁrst artist approached in late 2013 was Polly Morgan, an artist RAMM had long wanted to work with.

Artist Reﬂections in outline: XX Four reﬂections by different artists – ‘mini-commissions’ that acted as creative interventions - over a period of time during 2014 and throughout 2015.

XX These artists reﬂected on the four different collection areas (antiquities, art, natural history, world cultures) but this was not a requirement. (i.e. two artists might respond to the same collection area).

XX Each artist responded either via a piece of work, if they felt this was achievable within the budget, or via text, lecture, performance or another response that visitors can experience.

In the event that the reﬂection proposed was not a tangible object, RAMM agreed with all artists it would be a piece which could be captured or recorded for future reference and learning.

Participating artists: XX Polly Morgan XX Mark Anstee XX Sonia Boyce and Serena Korda XX Rod Dickinson Below: You Are Here, 2014 Polly Morgan RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Polly Morgan

Based in London, Polly studied with Scottish taxidermist George Jamieson and for more than ten years she has played with taxidermy traditions, creating unsettling sculptures that question an often sentimentalised view of the natural world. Polly’s art has caught the imagination of collectors, curators and audiences around the world. She has exhibited across the UK and in Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United States. Polly was selected to represent the UK in the exhibition Organic Matters: Women to Watch 2015 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. www.pollymorgan.co.uk

The Reﬂection: You Are Here Polly visited in December 2013 and responded to the natural history collections, creating You Are Here which was exhibited August 2014 to March 2015 at the More in Store Viewpoint. Polly generously donated the work to be accessioned into RAMM’s collections.

Polly Morgan was inspired by RAMM’s natural history collections Image © Mark Anstee RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Mark Anstee

Now based in East Sussex, Mark has exhibited at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London. He was artist-in-residence at the Imperial War Museum North in 2014 with redblueredblue. Commissioned by IWMN, this was a 30-day drawing and multiple projection piece, performed live in the main exhibition halls of the museum to commemorate the start of the First World War. Previous achievements include being Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence at Stonehenge World Heritage Site and Artist-on-Manoeuvres onboard the Royal Navy’s ﬂagship HMS Bulwark. Mark created work for In Flanders Field Museum, Belgium, and completed residencies at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and Castanheiro de Vento, Portugal. www.markanstee.com

The Reﬂection: RAMMYRIORAMA Mark completed a site visit in September 2014 and responded to RAMM’s world cultures collections. His plans involved a concept poster inspired by key objects from the collections and presented through a modern take on the theatre of a 19th century ‘Myriorama’ – a RAMMYRIORAMA, displayed in the World Cultures galleries from 13 February 2015 to 3 January 2016.

“ Working with RAMM on the Artist’s Reﬂection commission was an absolute pleasure. The brief was clear, but open enough, and the process collaborative, rigorous and professional. I felt very well supported by all members of the RAMM family and I was afforded a great deal of research time, discussion and technical assistance during the whole process. I was surprised by the ﬁnal work that I produced, which, I believe is an indication of having been tested by new ideas, stimulated by debate and inspired by an extraordinary collection. I’m proud to have made a work for this unique museum.”

Mark Anstee Image © Rod Dickinson RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Rod Dickinson

Rod is based in Bristol where he is a lecturer at the University of the West of England. He has created installations and live events independently and as part of a team, for a variety of organisations including the Hayward Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Longside and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Rod’s work is held in public collections including the Arts Council Collection at Southbank Centre. His solo exhibitions have included galleries in Frankfurt, Ljubljana, Vancouver and Washington DC. www.roddickinson.net

The Reﬂection: Outlier Detection The artist’s interest lies in responding to historical events and material culture. Outlier Detection combines live data from http://www. legislation.gov.uk/ with a Victorian police truncheon from RAMM’s collection. The artwork monitors and measures the frequency with which UK legislation is made on an hour-by-hour basis, in real time. This data animates a digital 3D image of the truncheon causing it to break up and disintegrate. It looks for the publication of Statutory Instruments. Despite lacking the same kind of parliamentary scrutiny as primary legislation, Statutory Instruments are becoming increasingly common and now form the bulk of all legislation in the UK.

Outlier Detection contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Rod Dickinson by Matt Austin Top: Bottom: The modelling of Oscar’s head Oscar © Eleanor Pearce © Matt Austin RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Sonia Boyce

Based in London, Sonia has exhibited extensively including Berlin, Moscow and Guangzhou. Her work was shown at the Venice Art Biennale of 2015, and in exhibitions at Rivington Place and Tate Britain. A former director of the African & Asian Visual Artists Archive, she was awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (NESTA) and the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC); and an MBE for services to art by the Queen. In 2016 Sonia was elected as a Royal Academician (RA). Sonia is a professor at the University of the Arts, London and Middlesex University. Collections holding her work include the British Council, Tate, the V&A and the Arts Council Collection. Donald MacLellan’s portrait of Sonia is in the National Portrait Gallery.

The Reﬂection: Oscar Sonia’s response is to the display of the tiger that was killed and donated by George V in 1911, and displayed in the Case Histories gallery. Sonia visited RAMM in December 2014, and met with the team. Sonia invited fellow artist Serena Korda to collaborate and they both visited in May 2015 to determine the creation of the ﬁgure they named Oscar. He arrived inside the historic display cabinet alongside the tiger during July 2015 and was displayed until May 2016.

Sonia Boyce Below: Sonia Boyce and Serena Korda RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Serena Korda

Serena examines the secret life of objects and our latent desire to ﬁnd pleasure in fear. Underpinning her practice is a search to ﬁnd and highlight ritual in the everyday developed through encounters, conversations and the researching of abandoned histories. Serena studied at Middlesex University and completed her MA in Printmaking at Royal College of Art in 2009. Exhibitions include Shifting Sands at Modern Art Oxford (2015) and Aping the Beast at Camden Arts Centre, London, and the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2013). In 2014 she undertook a residency at The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles. www.serenakorda.com

“ It has been a privilege to work with the team and also with one of the tigers King George V shot on a hunting expedition back in 1911. Whilst making Oscar I have been able to reconsider my relationship to the hunted and stuffed animal. Their pathos and impotence demonstrate how rapidly we are destroying nature, whilst travelling towards a new phase of mass extinction. Oscar’s half biting, half screaming expression sums up this projection towards oblivion, whilst emphasising how civilisation has disconnected with its environment and is willingly cutting off its own lifeline.”

Serena Korda 2 Engagement in multi-disciplinary exhibitions

Artists have been invited to participate in some of the major thematic exhibitions as part of RAMM’s public programme. These creative interventions offer new insights and perspectives. Below: Bottom: A First Rate Man-of-War Driving Whatever the Weather on a Reef of Rocks, and Foundering installation in gallery 22 in a Gale, George Philip Reinagle (1802-1835) © RAMM RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Whatever the Weather 21 Nov 2015 to 10 Apr 2016

This exhibition exposed humanity’s relationship to the elements through a lively mix of historical paintings and prints, artefacts, archives and the work of contemporary artists. It drew on collections from the Met Office, National Trust, Royal Meteorological Society, the Arts Council Collection and RAMM. Material included rain gods from the Americas, paintings by William Blake and Samuel Palmer, stormy seascapes and ships in distress, private weather diaries, weathervanes, barometers, thermometers and all manner of recording instruments, Admiral FitzRoy’s first ever weather forecast issued by the Met Office in 1861 and Beaufort’s original table of wind strength (the Beaufort Scale) dating to 1810.

In response to the historical material, RAMM commissioned new work by one of the UK’s leading artists working with digital media: Susan Collins, Professor and Director of the Slade School of Fine Art, created work based on the Devon coast. Other artists included Joanna Brown who exhibited her new work ARKive exploring ﬂoods and their aftermath; Simon Faithfull who loaned a video piece created with the help of a weather balloon; and Julian Grater whose recent paintings and photography illustrated the dramatic impact of climate change. Whatever the Weather was suggested by RAMM’s Contemporary Arts Panel. René Apallec, Gueule Cassée N°138, 2006-2013 Sutured Collage, magazine paper RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Faces of Conﬂict: The impact of the First World War on art and facial reconstructive surgery 17 Jan to 5 Apr 2015

Developed in partnership with the University of Exeter, with funding from the EU INTERREG programme, the exhibition explored how the treatment of soldiers’ facial injuries inﬂuenced medical practices and changed society’s view of war.

The exhibition created a dialogue between art made during and immediately after the First World War and contemporary artists’ work. It included loans from the UK and France, contemporary art by René Apallec, Eleanor Crook and Paddy Hartley, and archive material. This formed part of RAMM’s contribution to the national First World War Centenary programme.

And The Band Played On, Eleanor Crook 2013. Life-size in wax and mixed material

European Regional Development Fund Faces of Conﬂict was a collaboration The European Union, investing in your future between RAMM and the University of Exeter; it was part of the EU INTERREG Fonds européen de développement régional L’Union européenne investit dans votre avenir IV-funded project 1914FACES2014. Below: Bottom: Daddy Witch, 2008 Clare Bideford, Devon, 1946 Woods (b1972). Enamel and David Bomberg oil on aluminium. Arts Council © RAMM Collection © the artist courtesy Stuart Shave Modern Art. RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Detached and Timeless: contemporary artists inspired by nature and spirit of place 12 Jul to 2 Nov 2014

Detached and Timeless, which took its title from a quote by Prunella Clough (1919-99), featured art by 25 of the most signiﬁcant ﬁgures in British art from the past sixty years. Curated specially for RAMM, works by Sandra Blow, David Bomberg, Edward Burra, Prunella Clough, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton and Peter Lanyon were featured alongside Richard Long, Rachel Lowe, George Shaw, Jem Southam and Clare Woods. The exhibition showcased several important artworks from museum partners RAMM and Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, though the majority were generously loaned from the Arts Council Collection.

During the exhibition, RAMM hosted an Arts Council Curators Day which featured presentations by artists Maria Lalic and Polly Morgan; Jill Constantine (Head of the Arts Council Collection), Julien Parsons (RAMM’s Senior Collections Ofﬁcer) and Martin Thomas (RAMM’s Creative Programmer and exhibition curator). 3 Solo artist exhibitions

RAMM has presented and organised new exhibitions by some of the UK’s most respected artists. Below: Bottom: Provence – Bonnieux from the Devon - shimmering light Coppice, 2008 over rock pools, 2008 RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Contours in Colour: Alan Cotton retrospective 17 Sep to 1 Nov 2015

This exhibition featured paintings spanning a period of more than 40 years of work by Alan Cotton. The artist has accompanied the Prince of Wales as tour artist to Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and Sri Lanka; and travelled as expedition artist with explorer David Hempleman-Adams to Mount Everest.

This exhibition was organised to mark the opening of the new Centre for the Arts at the University of Bath before travelling to Exeter. Alan’s paintings are in numerous public and private collections around the world; and he is represented internationally by Messum’s Fine Art, Cork Street in London.

Tibet – Sunlit Peaks and Deep Shadows on Everest, 2012, Alan Cotton. Loaned by kind permission of Martin Bralsford Esq. Below: Bottom: Crediton Rugby Club Match, Fans, Sandy Park Stadium, photograph by Michelle Sank photograph by Michelle Sank RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Touch-Line: Photography by Michelle Sank 19 Sep to 6 Nov 2015

An exhibition commissioned by RAMM to celebrate the Rugby World Cup 2015. Photographer Michelle Sank was awarded funds from Arts Council England to undertake a comprehensive visual record of the preparation for RWC15. Exeter was host city for matches played by Georgia, Italy, Namibia, Romania and Tonga.

Michelle’s photographs have been exhibited and published internationally. She won the National Portrait Gallery’s Photographic Portrait Prize (2007), a UNICEF award (2012) and Gold in the San Francisco International Photographic Exhibition Awards (2013). Michelle has completed commissions for The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Belfast Exposed; and Rakyo Photo Center, San Francisco. She has published three books and is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Falmouth University, Cornwall.

Michelle Sank by Matt Austin

ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Acquired jointly through The d’Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008. RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Gilbert & George: ARTIST ROOMS 22 Mar to 22 Jun 2014

Representing major aspects of the career of Gilbert & George from 1969 to 1991, this continued RAMM’s desire to work with partners, to present international contemporary art to audiences in Exeter and the Southwest. RAMM was the ﬁrst ARTIST ROOMS Associate to hold a Gilbert & George exhibition from the national collection created by Anthony d’Offay.

Funding from the Art Fund and Arts Council England enabled the museum to organise an education and engagement programme, including lectures, drawing and digital art workshops, short ﬁlm and a question time debate. The engagement programme included gallery interpretation by RAMM’s cultural volunteers.

Existers, 1984 © Gilbert & George Brooch Vll, 2011 RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Gillian Ayres: Paintings & Prints 1986-2011 15 Jun to 15 Sep 2013

The exhibition featured the printmaking of one of the leading British abstract artists of her generation, as well as recent paintings. Gillian studied at Camberwell College of Art (1945-50) and then worked in London. She went on to teach at the Bath Academy in Corsham, St Martins School of Art and ﬁnally became head of painting at Winchester School of Art.

Gillian Ayres’ work is in the collections of the British Museum, Tate, the Victoria & Albert Museum; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Ayres was made a Royal Academician in 1991 and awarded a CBE in 2011. This exhibition was organised in partnership with the Alan Cristea Gallery, London.

Gillian Ayres Exposure (five hours of light), 1 July 2005 © Garry Fabian Miller RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

HOME Dartmoor: Garry Fabian Miller 31 Mar to 24 Jun 2012

New and established works by artist Garry Fabian Miller, a leading ﬁgure in camera-less photography, organised with the involvement of cultural environmentalist Dr Tom Greeves. Flints from RAMM’s own archive were displayed alongside contemporary artworks. These ﬂints, collected by Captain Oscar Grieg (1889-1969), represented the earliest moorland people from almost 10,000 years ago.

This exhibition of Garry Fabian Miller’s luminous art was an evocative tribute to Dartmoor which has been his home and inspiration for over 25 years. The artist has exhibited in London, New York, Paris and Tokyo so this exhibition in Exeter was a homecoming of sorts.

Gaze Winter, 2009/10 © Garry Fabian Miller 4 Partnerships for contemporary art

RAMM is an active partner locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. These vary from collaborating in over 90 community partnerships since 2011; to supporting international links with museums and universities from Finland to France, Brazil to Canada.

In respect of contemporary arts, RAMM has been a partner in several projects beyond the walls of the museum. The Weight of the World was presented by Spacex in partnership with RAMM and Exeter Phoenix. Supported by Arts Council England, Exeter City Council, The Henry Moore Foundation, The Elephant Trust and The Foyle Foundation.

Support from The Elephant Trust RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

The Weight of the World: Sean Lynch 14 May to 2 Jul 2016 at Exeter Phoenix and RAMM

Spacex, with Exeter Phoenix and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, presented The Weight of the World, an exhibition by Sean Lynch featuring three new video commissions and the UK premiere of the video element of Adventure: Capital, which represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2015.

Split across the adjacent sites of Exeter Phoenix and RAMM, Sean’s work was informed by objects from RAMM’s collection of over one million items including the Seaton Down Hoard, one of the largest hoards of Roman coins ever found in Britain, discovered by a metal detectorist in East Devon.

Produced at RAMM and in locations throughout the UK and Ireland, Lynch’s new commission, Campaign to Change the National Monuments Acts (2016), considered the legal status of metal detectors in the artist’s native Ireland. Two additional video commissions centred on stone carving. The Vermiculation of Exeter (Exeter Phoenix) mapped local sites that portray the titular architectural decorative technique. The Weight of the World (RAMM) documented the procession of a stone fragment from a Dominican Friary choir screen as it was removed from its museum case and carried to the original priory site, now part of the city’s Princesshay shopping precinct.

Support by Arts Council England, Exeter City Council, The Henry Moore Foundation, The Elephant Trust and The Foyle Foundation. Chris Watson by Matt Austin RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Ebb and Flow: An installation commissioned by RAMM 2015 to 2016

RAMM is a founder member of ‘New Expressions’, a programme which started as a Southwest based initiative in 2008 to encourage artists and museums to collaborate. Partners now include the National Trust and the Contemporary Visual Arts Network. New Expressions 3 extended activity to other regions of England.

Chris Watson is one of the world’s leading sound recordists: his BAFTA- award winning credits include Frozen Planet and Life of Birds for BBC TV, and he has worked extensively for Radio 4, and the BBC Four Goes Slow strand with Dawn Chorus. He brought the sounds of rural Devon into the heart of RAMM. When using the stairway linking the museum’s garden entrance to the Down to Earth gallery, visitors experience recordings of four seasonal soundscapes from coast and countryside. Chris captured sounds from rock pools and estuaries, farmland and meadow, pebblebed heathlands and oak woodlands.

Chris Watson by Matt Austin

new expressions Theo Simpson: Lesser Known Architecture 16 to 22 Sep 2013

This project was presented during the ‘Unexpected’ festival across the city centre. Theo Simpson documented buildings, structures and concepts that deﬁned their time, inspiring future architectural visions and technologies, and yet remain unknown to the general public. Images were placed on bus shelters in six locations for the public to unexpectedly encounter when passing through the city.

This was a co-production between a consortium of four organisations: Spacex, Exeter Phoenix, RAMM and CCANW, with support from Exeter City Council and Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts. RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

This City’s Centre 23 Jul to 22 Sep 2013

A contemporary portrait of a rural city, this video installation was part of an exploration of the tensions between public, private and privatised public space that happened across Exeter’s city centre during the summer.

The project was organised by Devon-based artist collective Blind Ditch and supported by Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts and Exeter City Council, delivered in partnership with RAMM, Exeter Phoenix and Exeter College. The future

Since 2012, RAMM and Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery have worked together as a Major Partner Museum (MPM) consortium, supported by Arts Council England. MPMs lead wide programmes of work including lifelong learning, collections care and conservation; they demonstrate innovative and engaging interpretations of their Designated collections; focus on becoming sustainable organisations through increasing earned income; and improve staff development through workforce training programmes.

As part of our three-year plan, the Plymouth/RAMM MPM programme for 2015-18 has among its priorities ‘working with artists to unlock the creative potential of collections’ as part of a leadership role assigned by the Arts Council. During the next couple of years RAMM will be continuing to work with artists and sharing our learning with partners, to increase public access and participation with collections.

More information about RAMM’s work with artists can be found via the following links:

Commissioning new work from artists: http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/getting-involved/exhibiting-at-ramm/ commissioning-new-art/

Contemporary arts programme mid-term review: http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ contemporary-art-review.pdf

Evaluation of the contemporary arts volunteering programme (2013): http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/whats- art-got-to-do-with-it.pdf

Gilbert & George learning and marketing review (2014): http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/gilbert- george-learning-marketing-review.pdf

RAMM’s Contemporary Arts Panel: http://www.rammuseum.org.uk/getting-involved/exhibiting-at-ramm/ contemporary-arts-panel/

How investment from Arts Council England has supported RAMM’s contemporary arts programme: http://bit.ly/28L1EnM RAMM’s creative programming in collaboration with contemporary artists

Forthcoming projects:

In the autumn of 2016, sculptor Michael Shaw will be ‘sculpting the museum’ with a site-speciﬁc installation responding to the natural science material in RAMM’s Sladen Library; and Kurt Jackson will be presenting his responses to JMW Turner’s Southwest scenes. Future exhibitions include art by Gordon Cheung, Rui Matsunaga and Nahem Shoa inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost in summer 2017; and Turner Prize nominee and Devon-based painter George Shaw who brings his National Gallery exhibition to Exeter in 2018.

Outcomes from RAMM’s work with artists include:

XX A broader range of people have engaged with museum collections and experienced high quality participative projects and compelling visitor experiences

XX Contemporary artists have collaborated with museum colleagues

XX The opportunity to work with cultural heritage and collections has inspired some of the UK’s leading artists to push artistic boundaries and stretch their practice

XX A model for collaborative working between museums and contemporary visual artists has been explored

XX Audiences for both visual arts and museums have been developed

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Gordon Cheung Polly Morgan

Sonia Boyce

Nahem Shoa Nahem Amador Montes Rui Matsunaga Joanna Brown Gillian Ayres Susan Collins Michelle McKinney Blind Ditch

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